The Manhattan Institute has released the most detailed study to date about the costs of Obamacare for individual market consumers. The results, based on a county-by-county survey - 3137 counties in all - finds that premiums increased 49% for consumers in the individual health insurance market over the 2013-14 period. (Click here for an interactive state by state map). There are hundreds of aspects of Obamacare that people argue over. But there’s one question that matters above all others: does the Affordable Care Act live up to its name? Does it make health insurance less expensive? Last November, our team at the Manhattan Institute published a study indicating that Obamacare had increased the underlying cost of individually-purchased health insurance in the average state by 41 percent in 2014, relative to 2013. We’ve now redone the study on a county-by-county basis, complete with a brand-new interactive map. Depending on where you live, the results may surprise...(Read Full Post)